Staphylococcus aureus multiresistance plasmid pSK41: Analysis of the replication region, initiator protein binding and antisense RNA regulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 497-509

  Kwong, Stephen M ^a   Skurray, Ronald A ^a   Firth, Neville ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HELICASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLI; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0942268741     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03843.x     Document Type: Article

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